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BOARD OF EDUCATION, 



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EULES AND REGULATIONS 



FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



IN THE 






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CITY OF BROOKLYlsr. 



AD0PT£O APRIJL 15lli, 1856. 



BROOKLYN: 

I. VAN ANDEN'S STEAM PRESSES, 30 FTTLTON STREET. 




1856. 





MANUAL 



OF THE 



BOARD OF EDUCATIO:^, 



WITH 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 



FOR THE GOVERNMENT OP THE 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



IN THE 



CITY OF BROOKLYN. 



ABOPTCa AP14IL. 15tl», 1856. 



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ITAMES AND KESIDEISrCE 



OF THE 



ffitm of tlje §0arir d 



BROOKLYI^r. 



PRESIDENT, 

CYEUS P. SMITH, 

51 Pierrepont street. 
VICE PRESIDENT, 

EDWAKD W. DURHAM, 

63 Warren street. 
CITY SUPERINTENDENT AND SECRETARY, 

J. ^Y. BULKLEY, 

216 South Fourth street. 
KEEPER OF DEPOT, 

HENKY DEAN, 

99 Degraw street. 
CLERK, 

SAMUEL P. KING, 

St. Felix st, near Lafayette Av. 



ISTAMES AjN^D RESIDENCE 



OF THE 



Pemhn of tl)e %mxl of Ckicatioit, 



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BEOOKLYN. 



ANTHONY, EDWARD 

103 Ainity street. 
BELLINGHA-M, JOHN 

160 Prospect street. 

BERGEN, JOHN G. 

Third avenue, near 35th street. 

BAYLIS, ABRAHAM B. 

106 Livingston street. 

BERGEN, PETER G. 

Third avenue, corner ISth street. 
BRINKERHOFF, ISAAC 

Fulton av, near Clove Road. 

BOOTH, SAMUEL 

i'S Tillary street. 

BERGEN, DEHART 

First avenue, near 44th street. 

BRO vFN, JOHN X. 

100 South 1st street. 

BURR, .JONATHAN S. 

129 South 9th street. 

BURNHAM, H. G. 

Ainsley St. near Union avenue. 
COCKS, JOHN D. 

261 State street. 

COPLAND, EDWARD 

Clinton avenue, near Park av. 

CALDWELL, WALLACE E. 

20T South 9th street. 

CRANE, WILLIAM W. 

De Kalb av. cor. Clinton av. 
CROWELL, STEPHEN 

Lefferts street, near Grand av. 

DILLINGHAM, WILLIAM S. 
12S Henry street. 

DUNHAM, EDWARD W. 

63 Warren street. 

FIELD, THOMAS W. 

South 9th near 9th street. 

GREENWOOD, JOHN 

23 Clinton street. 

HALL, JAMES 

Orient av. near Bushwick av. 

HALSEY, JOHN 

Corner Clinton and Myrtle av. 
HARRIS, WILLLVM M. 

47 Sands street. 



HAYNES, STEPHEN 

302 Bridge street. 

HARTEAU, HENRY 

TO La Fayette avenue. 

HOW, JAMES 

S3 Willow- street. 

HUNTER, JOHN W. 

Clinton av., near Green av, 

LAY, CHAUNCEY A. 

Sixth street, cor. North 6th. 

MURDOCK, JAMES 

Prospect Hill. 

PEER, WILLIAM H. 

2 Franklin Block, Green Point. 

POOLE, WILLIAM 

362 Atlantic street. 

PARSONS, GEORGE W. 

95 State street. 

PHELPS, JOHN M. 

De Kalb av., near Yates av. 

PIERSON. HENRY R. 

7S Livingston street. 

POLLEY. GRAHAMS 

31 S First, corner North 6th. 

RODMAN, THOS. H. 

129 Remsen street. 

SMITH, CYRUS P. 

51 Pierrepont street. 

SULLIVAN, THOMAS 

110 AVarren street. 
STEWART, JOHN 

Bushwick avenue, cor. Yaret st. 

TAYLOR, PETER G. 

197 Washington street. 

THORNE, .TOIIN S. 

43 Sands street. 

TUTTLE. CHARLES F. 

97 South 5th street. 

TAYLOR, FITCH 

Classon avenue, n. P. S. No. 4. 
THURSRY, ROBERT G. 

4S6 Grand street. 
WHITING. ROBERT M. Jr. 

135 Front street. 



stai^dijn^g committees. 



1856-7. 



On School Houses. 

SULLIVAN, HARRIS, BRINKERHOFF, HALL, D. BERGEN, LAY, COCKS. 

On Finance, 

P. G. BERGEN, DUNHAM, ANTHONY, HUNTER, P. G. TAYLOR, BURR, 

TUTTLE. 

Gn School Books. 

DILLTNGHAM, BROWN, J. G. BERGEN, CRANE, THURSBY, COPLAND, HOW. 

On Teachers. 

THORNE, FIELD, RODMAN, BOOTH, POOL. 

On Law. 

GREENWOOD, PARSONS, CALDWELL. 

On Music. 

BRINKERHOFF, TUTTLE, SMITH, F. TAYLOR, STEWART. 

On Supplies. 

HARRIS, BELLINGHAM, PEER. 

On Library. 
THORNE, HALSEY, SMITH, J. G. BERGEN, PHELPS. 

On Evening Schools. 
BAYLIS, PIERSON, P. G. TAYLOR, BURNHAM, POLLEY, TUTTLE, HAYNES. 

On Normal School. 
COPLAND, ANTHONY, GREENWOOD, THORNE, TUTTLE. 

On Examinations. 

BURNHAM, COCKS, CROW^ELL, MURDOCK, WHITING, Jr. 

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SCHOOL COMMITTEES. 



1^0. 1. p. a. TAYLOR, RODMAN, 
WHITING, Je. 

" 2. D. BERGEN, J. G. BERGEN, 
P. G. BERGEN 

*' 3. BRINKERHOFF,CROWELL, 
HUNTER. 

^' 4. F. TAYLOR, PHELPS, 
BRINKERHOFF. 

*' 5. HAYNES, ANTHONY, PAR- 
SONS. 

*' 6. COCKS, PIERSON, BAYLIS. 

" 7. THORNE, HOW, BELLING- 
HAM. 

" 8. ANTHONY, GREENWOOD. 
DILLINGHAM. 

" 9. MURDOCK,CRANE,BOOTH. 

" 10. P. G. BERGEN, J. G. BER- 
GEN, D. BERGEN. 

" 11. HUNTER, HARTEAU, 
CRANE. 



No. 12. COPLAND, HALSEY, 
SMITH. 

" 13. DUNHAM, SULLIVAN, 
POOLE. 

" 14. HARRIS, HALSEY, SULLI- 
VAN. 

" 15. VACANT. 

" 16. TUTTLE, BURR, CALD- 
WELL. 

" IT. LAY, POLLEY, FIELD. 

" 18. BROWN, THURSBY, BURN- 
HAM. 

" 19. FIELD, CALDWELL, TUT- 
TLE. 

" 20. VACANT. 

" 21. VACANT. 

" 22. PEER, HALL, LAY. 

" 23. HALL, THURSBY, STEW- 
ART. 

'• 24. STEWART,TUTTLE,BROWN 



COLORED SCHOOLS. 

No. 1. HARTEAU, PARSONS, V»'HITING, Jr. 
" 2. BRINKERHOFF, CROWELL, CRANE. 
" 3. POLLY, CALDWELL, BROWN. 



VISITING COMMITTEES, 



1856. 



APRIL. 

BROWN, BRINKERHOFF, MURDOCK, DUNHAM. 

MAY. 
LAY, POOL, THORNE, HOW. 

JUNE. 

TUTTLE, CRANE. P. G. TAYLOR, HALSEY. 

JULY. 
ANTHONY, P. G. BERGEN, BELLINGHAM, HALL. 

SEPTEMBER. 

PIERSON, DILLINGHAM, CROWELL, BURNHAM. 

OCTOBER. 
BURR, COPLAND, F. TAYLOR, PARSONS. 

NOVEMBER. 
FIELD, COCKS, PEER, D. BERGEN. 

DECEMBER 
PHELPS, BOOTH, HUNTER, J. G. BERGEN. 



1«57. 

JANUARY. 
PARSONS, SULLIVAN, RODMAN, POLLY. 

FEBRUARY. 
CALDWELL, HARTEAU, TIIURSBY, HAYNES. 

MARCH. 
BAYLIS, GREENWOOD, STEWART, HARRIS. 



CLASSIFICATION OF MEMBERS, 



AND THE 



TIME THEY HAVE TO SERVE. 



J. G. BERGEN, 
P. G. BERGEN, 
J. BRINKERHOFF, 
SAMUEL BOOTH, 
J. D COCKS, 
W. E. CALDWELL, 
W. W. CRANE, 



Class First— Two Years. 

STEPHEN CROWELL, 
AVM. M. HARRIS, 
J. J. MURDOCK, 
GRAHAMS POLLY, 
THOMAS SULLIVAN, 
JOHN STEWART, 
P. G. TAYLOR, 
ROBERT THURSBY. 



Class Second— One Year. 



EDWARD ANTHONY, 
J. BELLINGHAM, 
H. G. BURNHAM, 
J. S. BURR, 
EDWARD COPLAND, 
E. W. DUNHAM, 
W. S. DILLINGHAM, 



THOMAS W. FIELD, 
JOHN HALSEY, 
STEPHEN HAYNES, 
HENRY HARTEAU, 
JAMES HOW, 
W. H. PEER, 
C. P. SMITH, 
J. S. THORNE. 



Class Third— Three Years. 



A. B. BAYLIS, 
DEHART BERGEN, 
J. X. BROWN, 
J. GREENWOOD, 
J. W. HUNTER, 
JAS. HALL, 
€. A. LAY, 



G. W. PARSONS, 
WM. POOLE, 
J. M. PHELPS, 
H. R. PIERSON, 
T. H. RODMAN, 
CHAS. F. TUTTLE, 
FITCH TAYLOR, 
R. M. WHITING, Jr. 



EULES 

TO BE OBSERVED IN TRANSACTIONS WITH DEPOT. 



Pens aad Pen-holders, Writing Paper, Copy Slips, and Slate Pen- 
cils. Pails, Dippers, Brooms, Mats, Brashes. Towels, Chalk or 
Crayons and Sponge, without charge. 

1. Books will be delivered at the Depository daily from 9 till 12 
o'clock. 

2. Books are furnished to destitute scholars upon the written 
order of the Principal thereof, endorsed by one or more of the 
School Committee with name and residence of Pupil and Parents, 
stating their known inability to pay for the same. 

3. Returns from the Principals for books so furnished are to be 
made at the Depository weekly, and all accounts for the same are 
to be fully settled at the end ol every month. 

4. No Text Books are to be introduced into any of the Schools, 
unless previously authorized by the Board of Education. 

5. All Text Books authorized by the Board to be used in the 
Public Schools as well as all Copy Books, and Copies for writing, 
shall be purchased by the Principal at the Depot; and no such 
articles obtained by them elsewhere shall be sold at the Scho'ls. 



TEXT BOOKS 

AUTHORIZED TO BE USED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

OF THE 

CITY OF BEOOKLYN. 



Cobb's Spelling Book. 
Price's '• 

'' Primer. 
Mandaville's 1st Reader. 
'- 2nd " 

" 3d 

4tli " 
Course of Reading. 
Hazen's Definer. 
Claggett's Expositor. 
Lynd's Etymology. 
Taylor's Physiology. 
Baldwin's Tables. 
Thomson's Higher Arithmetic. 
" Practical '• 
" Mental " 

Stoddard's Intellectual '• 
" Juvenile Mental 

Arithmetic. 
Pinneo's Analytical Grammar 

Primary *' 

Morse's Geography. 
Smith's 
Fitch's " 



Fitch's Mapping Plates. 
Monteith's Manual of Geog'y. 
Cornell's Intermediate '• 
" Primary " 

Mattisou's Astronomy. 
Mayhew's Book Keeping and 

Blanks. 
Willard's History of U. S. 
Parker's Outlines of General 

History. 
Parker's Natural Philosophy. 

" 1st Lessons. 
Jaeger's Zoology. 
Quackenboss' 1st Lessons in 

English Composition. 
Tower's Algebra. 
Eavies' '• 

" Mathematics. 
Crosby's Geometry. 
Copy Books plain ruled. 
Slates, Toy. 
Small. 

'' Medium. 

" Larffe. 



RULES OF THE BOARD. 



. At all stated meetings the business shall be announced by 
the presiding officer in the following order, unless dispensed 
with by a vote of the Board : 

1. Calling the Roll and noting the attendance of members 
and the absentees. 

2. Reading and approving the Minutes. 

3. Communications. 

4. Presentations of Bills. 

5. Reports of Standing Committees. 

6. Reports of Special Committees. 

7. Unfinished Business. 

8. Motions and Miscellaneous Business. 

All resolutions shall be presented in writing and shall not 
be considered unless seconded. 

A question consisting of distinct propositions, shall be divi- 
ded at the request of a member. 

^hen a question is under consideration, no motion shall be 
received, except to adjourn, to lay on the table, for the pre- 
vious question, to postpone, to divide, to commit, or to amend ; 
and these shall have precedence in the order in which they 
have been named. 

The motion for the previous question shall be put in this 
form: — ''Shall the main question be now put?" and if sus- 
tained by a majority, tlie propositions before the Board, shall 
be forthwith put without debate, in the inverse order in which 
they were offered. 



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Motions to lay on the table, for adjournment, for the pre- 
vious question, shall be taken Avithout debate ; and at the re- 
request of two or more members, the yeas and nays shall be 
called. 

In speaking, tlie members shall rise and address the Chair. 
Any member having spoken twice on a question, may be called 
to order, and shall not proceed Avithout the permission of the 
Board. 

The member first named on any committee shall be chairman 
thereof; and in case of his resignation or absence, the one next 
in order shall perform the duties of chairman. 

The reports of committees shall be presented in writing, 
signed by the members who concur therein. 

In case the members are equally divided on any question, it 
shall be deemed to be lost. 

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. 

The Board may form itself into a Committee of the Whole, 
in which case the President, first naming a President shall 
leave the Chair. 

The Kules of the Board shall, as far as practicable and ex- 
cept so far as they may restrict members speaking more than 
twice, or provide for the calling of the yeas and nays, and of 
the previous question, and except the motion to adjourn, be 
observed in Committee of the Whole, a motion for the commit- 
tee to rise may be made by any member at any time. 



BY-LAWS. 



ARTICLE I. 

Meetings. 

The regular meetings of the Board of Education shall be 
held on the first Tuesday of each month, at such hour and place 
as the Board may designate. Special meetings may he called 
as hereinafter provided. 

ARTICLE II. 

Officers. 

The Officers shall be a President.^ Vice President.^ City Su- 
perintendent^ Clerhs and Messenger. 

Sec. 1. The President shall preside at the meetings, pre- 
serve order, appoint the Standing and other Committees, ex- 
except when ordered by the majority to be chosen by ballot; 
call special meetings when he shall deem it necessary, or on 
the written application of any three members ; and perform 
such other duties as are usual to a presiding officer. 

§ 2. In the absence of the President, his duties shall devolve 
upon the Vice President, and in their absence, a President shall 
be chosen pro tempore. 

§ 3. The City Superintendent shall be elected annually, and 
shall have the custody of the records, books and papers, give 
due notice to the members of the time and place of all special 
and other meetings when directed by the Board, keep full 



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minutes of their proceedings and record the same, keep a true 
account of all money drawn from the Treasury and for what 
purpose, and a correct record of the text books ordered by the 
Board to be used in Schools, in all which duties he shall have 
the assistance of the Clerks. 

He shall devote his time when the schools are in session to 
their visitation and supervision, give his personal attendance 
at the Office of the Board for the transaction of business on 
Tuesdays from 9 o'clock, A. M., to 3 P. M. of each week, and he 
shall examine all Teachers and certify to their qualifications, be- 
fore they can be appointed, examine and sign such warrants as 
shall be ordered by the Board, pay the salaries of Teachers and 
other bills at his office, on Saturday succeeding the appropria- 
tions, and make the Annual Eeport as required by law, and such 
other reports as the Board for its information may require. 

§ 4. The Clerks shall act as assistants to the Secretary, and, 
under direction of the Finance Committee, shall keep the 
accounts of the Board, enter and engross the minutes of the 
proceedings of the Board and of the Standing Committees, 
draw and enter Warrants, have charge of the Depot and School 
Books, and render such service as may be directed or may be- 
come proper in connection with the furnishing of books and 
supplies to the Schools ; and they shall give their personal at- 
tendance at the office and depot, between the hours of 8 o'clock, 
A. M., and 1 o'clock, P. M., and 2 and 5 o'clock, P. M,, during 
each week day, and at such other times as the Committee may 
require, with the exception of those days on which the Board 
shall direct the office to be closed ; and discharge such other 
duties as the Board shall direct. 

§ 5, The Messenger shall distribute the notices of meetings 
of the Board and of its Committees, and be present at the meet- 
ings of the Board to receive its directions. 

§ 6. All Warrants shall be drawn payable to the order of 
the individual to whom the same may be due, and the pur- 
pose for which the same are drawn shall be stated in the mar- 



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gin of the Warrant Book ; said Warrant shall be signed by the 
President or Vice President, and Secretary ; or in case of the 
absence or inability of either, by such other member or mem- 
bers as may be designated for that purpose by the Board. 

AETICLE III. 

Elections. 

The Election of Officers shall be by ballot, and shall take 
place annually on the second Tuesday after the first Monday 
in February, immediately after the reading of the Minutes, 
provided that no other time be designated by the Board. No- 
tices of the day of election shall be duly served on the mem- 
bers and members elect by the Secretary. A majority of the 
votes cast shall be necessary to a choice of all the Officers of 
the Board, and no Officer shall be removed except by a vote of 
a majority of the whole Board. 

ARTICLE IV. 

Quorum. 

A majority of all the members shall constitute a quorum 
necessary to the transaction of business, though any number 
may from time to time adjourn. 

ARTICLE y. 

Standing Committee. 

At the Annual Meeting for the election of officers, or the 
next meeting thereafter, Standing Committees shall be ap- 
pointed as follows : 

Sec. 1. On School Houses. — This Committee shall consist 
of seven members, and its duty shall be to visit and examine, 
during schools hours, every School in the City, at least once in 
each year, and as often as required by the School Committee, 
with a view to ascertain the actual condition and wants of 
each. 



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They shall cause the School Houses to be kept in good re- 
pair, and after advisement with the School Committee may 
make any alteration or improvement, the cost of which shall 
not exceed one hundred dollars. 

The Committee shall report upon the location, size and model 
of each new School House to be erected; and cause all neces- 
sary plans and models and specifications to be drawn and 
made; and with the concurrence of the Law Committee, may 
cause contracts to be prepared for the doing of the work ; but 
no contract or agreement which shall involve an expenditure 
exceeding one hundred dollars shall be binding, unless ap- 
proved by the Board, and subscribed by the President and 
Secretary ; but in every contract, there shall be inserted an ex- 
press condition that no member of this Board shall be admit- 
ted to any share or part thereof, or to any benefit to arise there- 
from, directly or indirectly. 

§ 2. On Finance. — This Committee shall consist of seven 
members, and shall have charge of the financial afi^airs of the 
Board, audit all bills and accounts referred to them, and if ap- 
proved by a majority of the Committee, order them to be paid. 
They shall present, at each stated meeting an abstract of the 
available means of the Board and the condition of the several 
accounts. 

§ 3, On School Books. — This Committee shall consist of 
seven members, whose duty it shall be to recommend from 
time to time such Schools Books as they believe best adapted 
to the wants of the schools, and such measures as will tend to 
secure uniformity of instruction and give the greatest facilities 
for developing the minds of the pupils. All questions respect- 
ing Maps, Charts, Diagrams, Globes, and other school appara- 
tus, shall also be referred to this Committee. 

§ 4. On Teachers. — This Committee shall consist of five 
members, who, together with the respective School Commit- 
tees shall have the power to employ such teachers as may be 



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required in the schools, subject to the approval of the Board 
at the next meeting thereafter, to which their action shall be 
reported. (School Committees may employ teachers tempo- 
rarily, but such teachers shall not draw their pay for a longer 
period than two weeks, unless their appointment is sanctioned 
by the Teachers' Committee.) 

§ 5. Ox LiBEAEiES. — This Committee shall consist of five 
members, who shall have power to expend the library money 
in conformity with the law, and shall report to the Board a 
catalogue of the books purchased, and the amount expended 
They shall also purchase the school books and stationery for 
the depot, and exercise a supervisory care over the school 
hbraries. 

§ 6. On Law. — This Committee shall consist of three mem- 
bers, to whom shall be referred, for examination and report, all 
questions of a legal nature. 

§ v. On Music. — The Music Committee shall consist of 
five members, who shall have charge of all matters appertain- 
ing to the subject of music, and may nominate the Music 
Teacher or Teachers to be appointed by the Board. 

§ 8. On Supplies. — This Committee shall consist of three 
members, who shall purchase and supply all articles for the 
use of the Schools and the Board, enter into contracts for fuel, 
&c., except such as are otherwise provided for in sections 3 
and 5. 

§ 9. On Evening Schools. — This Committee shall consist 
of seven members, whose duty it shall be to organize such 
schools as the Board may direct, appoint the necessary teach- 
ers, and make such other provisions for their management as 
the Board may approve — and for the more perfect perform- 
ance of their several duties, they may appoint from their own 
members sub-committees for each school under their charge. 

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§ 10. On Noemal Schools. — This Committee shall consist 
of five members, one of whom shall be the Chairman of the 
Teacher's Committee. It shall be their duty to organise such 
]S"ormal Schools as the Board may approve — to appoint the 
necessary teachers, and make such other provision for their 
management as the Board may direct. 

The Chairmen of the respective Committees on School 
Houses, Finance, School Books, Teachers, Supplies and Even- 
ing Schools, shall keep minutes of their proceedings in books 
prepared for the purpose, which shall be handed over to their 
successors in office. If the Chairman of any Committee shall 
neglect to call the same together for such a length of time as 
the majority of said Committee shall deem unreasonable, said 
majority may, in that case, call a meeting thereof. 

The duties of all Committees are to be discharged under the 
direction of the Board, and no action of any Committee is to 
be binding until reported to the Board and approved, unless 
upon a reference with power, or where the power is expressly 
given. 

ARTICLE VI. 

School OjTid Visiting Committees, 

Sec. 1. Each School shall be under the particular charge 
of a Committee of three members, and shall be called the 
School Committee thereof. They shall have power to cause 
such repairs to the School buildings as may be necessary, not 
exceeding ten dollars in any one month. They shall also have 
the power to suspend a teacher for gross misconduct or neglect 
of duty, but shall make a written report of the same together 
with all the facts upon which their action is based to the 
Board at its next meeting. Each member shall visit his 
school at least once in each month ; shall confer with the 
teachers in relation to their duties, and advise them when 
occasion may require; keep watchful eye over the School 
House, Furniture, and other property committed to their 



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charge; and take cognizance of any complaints duly made, 
or of difficulty between the parents or guardians of the chil- 
dren and the teachers ; and shall see that the rules and regula- 
iions of the Board are enforced. 

§ 2. There shall be Visiting Committees of fora* members 
appointed to do duty in each month of the year, except August. 
Such Committees shall, in the month for which they are ap- 
pointed, visit and examine the condition of all Schools and 
School Houses, and make report upon each at the stated meet- 
ing of the month succeeding ; and in such report they shall 
make any suggestions deemed necessary or proper in regard to 
the interests of the several schools or the cause generally, which 
shall be in writing. 

The President shall announce the Committees for the month, 
at the regular monthly meeting, and so arrange them that no 
member shall be required to serve twice on the Committee 
during the same year. 

AETICLE YII. 

Besignations and Examinations. 

All vacancies of teachers occurring in the schools must be 
immediately communicated by the School Committee to the 
Chairman of the Teachers' Committee, or to the Board, by 
filing the same with the City Superintendent, in whose office 
shall be kept the record of all vacancies and the names of all 
candidates. 

Examinations of Teachers shall be held in strict conformity 
with the statute regulating the qualifications of teachers, 
always holding up the highest standard, but at the same time, 
having some regard to the position to be taken by the appli- 
cant; but in no case shall certificate of qualification be issued 
for any other grades than Principal and Assistant. The Su- 
perintendent shall enter the results of such examination, with 
such additional remarks as he may please to make in a book 
subject only to the inspection of the members of the Board 
when a certificate is granted. 



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The examination of Candidates for Principal of a School, 
must be held by the Superintendent in presence of, at least, 
one member of the Local Committee of the school to be supplied 
and one of the Teachers' Committee — but all other examinar- 
tions may be held and conducted as in the opinion of the City 
Superintendent he may think best. 

AETICLE VIII. 

School Buildings. 

The Buildings for the Public Schools in the City of Brooklyn, 
shall be used for no other purposes than such as may be imme- 
diately connected with Public School instruction. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Amendments. 

Alterations and amendments to these By-Laws may be made 
by a majority voting for the same, at two successive regular 
meetings. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



PAET I. 

Sec. 1. During each School day, the Schools shall be in 
session for six hours, exclusive of from half an hour to one hour 
at noon. 

From the first of April to the last of September the scbool 
session shall commence at 8 1-2 o'clock, A. M. ; and from the 
first of October till the last of March, at 9 o'clock, A. M., and 
be continued, with an intermission of ten minutes morning and 
afternoon. 

§ 2. The Schools shall be closed on Saturday and Sunday 
of every week; from the 25th of December to the first of 
January inclusive ; on the 4th of July and 22d of February ; 
on all days appointed by the public authorities for religious 
observance ; during the month of August, and such other days 
as the Board may direct. 

§ 3. The discipline to be maintained in the schools, shall 
be of a mild and parental character, and corporeal punishment 
is to be avoided, except when absolutely necessary, of which 
necessity the Principal must be the judge — but, children or 
parents may complain to the Trustees of unnecessary severity, 
and the complaint shall be heard and adjudged by them. 

§ 4. Any scholar who shall be guilty of defacing, or in any 
way injuring or damaging the school property, or who shall be 
guilty of gross misconduct, using obscene or profane language. 



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or whose example is seen to be injurious, and whose reforma- 
tion, after admonition, appears to be hopeless, shall be subject 
to expulsion or such other penalty as may be prescribed by the 
School Committee, to whom the case shall be forthwith 
reported by the teacher. 

§ 5. When a Pupil has been expelled from any school, 
notice thereof shall be served by thi Principal on the Super- 
intendent, who shall notify the Principals of all the Schools, 
and such pupil shall not be admitted into any of the Public 
Schools of this city, for the term of six months thereafter. 
That no imposition may be practiced, a record shall be kept 
by each Principal of all expelled pupils, and the date of 
expulsion, and all cases of expulsion shall be reported to the 
Board. 

§ 6. The books used and studies pursued shall be such as 
may be authorized by the Board of Education and no others. 

§ 7 No publications, magazines, or subscriptions for any 
purpose, shall be introduced into the Schools without the con- 
sent of the Board of Education. 

§ 8. The Records of the School shall at all times be subject 
to the inspection of the members of the Board. 

§ 9. There shall be a Depot of all necessary articles for the 
Schools, under the direction of the Library and Supply Com- 
mittees in charge of the Clerks of the Board who shall enter 
all articles purchased by said Committees in books to be pro- 
vided for the purpose when received. 

§ 10. There may be such annual public examinations of 
the pupils of the Schools as the Superintendent in connection 
with the respective School Committees may appoint and 
arrange; to which the members of the Board of Education 
and the public shall be invited, 

§ 11. When any child, during his or her stay in the School, 
has behaved in such a manner as to meet the approbation of 



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the Local Committee of Education, lie or she shall be fm*nished 
with a certificate, semi-annually, expressive of such approba- 
tion in the name of the Board. 

PART II. 

Organization of Schools. 

Sec. 1. All the Public Schools shall be open for the admis- 
sion of children above five years of age, according to the law 
of the State, residing in the districts where the schools are 
located : and no children residing in one district shall be 
entitled to admission in a school of another district, unless for 
some satisfactory reason it may be shown to be necessary, 
which reason must be approved by the Local Committee. 

Male and Female Grammar Schools. 

§ 2. The course of instruction, both in the Male and 
Female Grammar Schools, shall embrace Spelling, Reading, 
Writing, Definitions, Grammar, Composition, Declamation, 
Geography, History, Arithmetic and Yocal Music ; and as far 
as practicable, the use of Globes, Drawing, (especially the Draw- 
ing of Maps,) Geometry, Trigonometry, Natural Philosophy, 
Astronomy and Algebra. 

§ 3. ISTo boy or girl can be admitted into these Schools 
until well versed in the studies taught in the Primary Schools. 
In the Female Schools one afternoon in the week maybe devo- 
ted to plain sewing. 

Primary Schools. 

§ 4. The course of instruction in the Primary Schools, em- 
bracing children not sufiiciently advanced for entrance into 
the other schools, shall be such as may be ordered by the 
School Committee. 

§ 5. Each Primary School shall be furnished, as far as 
practicable, with desks, seats, lesson boards, slates and black 
boards. 



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§ 6. When any Pupil in the primary schools shall, in the 
estimation of the principal or the district committee, be suf- 
ficiently advanced in his or her studies, he or she shall be pro- 
moted to the Grammar school ; which promotion shall be, as 
far as practicable, in classes, after a thorough examination by 
the Principal. 

§ 8. A recess of ten ininutes shall be allowed at the close 
of each hour, during which the scholars shall be occupied, un- 
der the direction of the teachers, and in the presence of at 
least one of them, in exercise and recreation in the open air ; 
or if, from the state of the weather or the inconvenience of 
the building, this should be impracticable, they shall be em- 
ployed in regular and general exercise in the school-room ; 
such as rising and sitting by divisions, classes, or the whole 
together; marching and counter-marching; simultaneous 
motions of various limbs, &c. 

PAET III. 

Duties of Teachers. 

Sec. 1. The several teachers, whether Principals or Assist- 
ants, shall hold their office during the pleasure of the Board. 
Eesignations shall be made to the Chairman of the Teachers' 
Committee, and shall take effect only after a notice of two 
Aveeks. Teachers who are obliged to leave their duties on 
account of sickness, must report the fact to the Principal, who 
will immediately communicate it to the School Committee. 

§ 2. Every Public School, in the same building, shall be 
under the supervision and direction of the Principal of the 
Boys' Grammar School; and all the teachers and assistants 
shall be subject to his direction in all matters pertaining to the 
said schools, which do not conflict with these regulations or 
the By-Laws of the Board of Education. Below the Principal, 
authority shall be exercised according to grade or rank; and 
all the teachers and monitors in a department shall acknowl- 
edge the highest in rank as their head. It shall be the duty 



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of the Principal to organize the schools over which he presides, 
in all its departments ; see that teachers are prompt in their 
attendance, and perform faithfully the duties assigned to them; 
hear every class imder his charge at least once a month ; re- 
move teachers, with the concurrence of at least one of the 
School Committee, from one department to another, to answer 
a present purpose, as he may deem desirable ; and seek to in- 
spire the teachers under his direction with an ambition to ex- 
cel in their profession. In case of the absence of the Principal, 
the School Committee shall designate one of the teachers to 
act as Principal during such absence. 

§ 3. The Principals in each of the Schools shall have the 
immediate charge of all the children in their schools, who shall 
be divided into proper classes, according to their advancement ; 
classes may be divided into two or more parts, where the ca- 
pacity of the recitation rooms shall render it proper, in view 
of the health and comfort of the children ; all who are not en- 
gaged in the recitation rooms shall remain for study under the 
eye of the teacher first in rank, 

§ 4. Assistant Teachers shall keep class-books, in a form 
provided by the Committee on Teachers, in which they shall 
note the merits and demerits of scholars in their recitations, 
with such remarks as will enable the principal to be fully 
acquainted with the condition and progress of every class. 

§ 5. Teachers, and especially Principals, shall give constant 
attention to the care of the school houses, fences, school furni- 
ture, school books and libraries, and shall give immediate 
notice to the School Committee whenever any injury has been 
committed, or repairs are needed ; and it shall be the duty of 
the Principal of the school to cause the premises to be properly 
secured after the schools are dismissed, to direct the Janitor, 
and see that he properly performs his duty, to give receipts for 
fuel sent to the school, and see that it is properly stored, and 
used, and not wasted or destroyed. 

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§ 6. No teacher shall engage in any occupation that will 
interfere with the duties required of him or her hy these regu- 
lations. 

§ 7. The School shall be opened in tlte morning precisely 
Bt the hour appointed hy the Board ; and it shall be the duty 
of all the Teachers to be present at least 10 minutes previously, 
prepared to receive the scholars, and to call such pupils to an 
account as come in after the appointed time. A portion of the 
Holy Scriptures shall be read by, or under the direction of one 
of the teachers of the school. A Teacher's Eoll shall be kept 
in each school, which shall be called precisely at the appointed 
time for opening, by the first in rank who is present, who shall 
proceed to perform the opening ceremonies, though the supe- 
rior may not have arrived. 

§ 8. It shall be the duty of the Principal in each school to 
keep a School Register, in which sliall be entered the name of 
each scholar, with the age, date of admission and discharge ; 
the parent or guardian's name, residence and occupation ; the 
scholar's progress through the classes ; and a dail}^ record of 
the absence, tardiness, or negligence of the jjupils ; to inform 
.the parents of such remissness, and, when necessary, report the 
facts to the School Committee ; also to record every visit to 
the school by any member of the Board of Education, the City 
'Superintendent, or any other person, 

§ 9. The Principal shall make a Monthly Report to each 
member of the School Committee, and a quarterly report to 
the City Superintendent, of the number of children in the 
schools under his or her care, of the number admitted and dis- 
charged, the average attendance and the number of times the 
school has been visited by the Committees of the Board, the 
School Committee, the Cit}^ Superintendent, or visitors gen- 
erally : this report to be made up to the last day of the prece- 
ding month or quarter. 

§ 10. At the Stated Meeting of the Board of Education on 
the First Tuesday of January in every year, the Principal 



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shall make to the City Superintendent an annual report dated 
the 31st day of December preceding, which shall contain a 
statement of the number of children on register on the first 
day of January preceding, the number that have been admitted 
and discharged during the year, the annual average attendance, 
and the number on register at date of the report : also the 
number of children who have attended school less than two 
months ; two months and less than four months ; four months 
and less than six months ; six months and less than eight ; 
eight months and less than ten ; ten months and less than 
twelve; and twelve nionths; also, the number of books that 
have been added to the Library^during the year, and the num- 
ber in Library at date of report. 

§ 11. The Teachers shall not permit collections of money to 
be made from the scholars, for presentations, gifts or for any 
other purpose without the permission of the School Committee, 
nor allow any books or other publications to be distributed in 
their^schools, except^those provided for the instruction of the 
children by the Board of Education ; and during school hours, 
they must not be engaged in reading, writing, needle, or other 
work, exce]3t in pursuance of their school duties. 

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the Teachers, as far as practi- 
cable, to make themselves acquainted with the inhabitants^of 
the district in which their schools are located. 

§. 13. The Principals of the Boys' Grammar Schools'"shall 
act as Librarians, and attend to the loaning'out^of books to the 
inhabitants of the District, at such times as may be prescribed 
by the School Committee of their respective schools. 



SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 



Each District is tiiat portion of the City included in and 
bounded as follows : 

DISTRICT No. 1. 

Centre lines of Fulton, Sands and Bridge streets, and Myrtle 
avenue to Fulton street. ' 

House — Corner of Adams and Concord streets, 

LYMAX E. WHITE, Principal. 

Residence — 277 Pearl street, 

DISTRICT No. 2. 

All that portion south-westerly of Twenty-seventh street. 
House — Forty -sex^enth street^ 'between Third and Fourth avenues . ' 

JACOB SAND, Principal. 

Residence — Bay Ridge. 

DISTRICT No, 3. 

Centrelines of DeKalb, Grand, Atlantic, and Washington avs.^ 
Baltic street, and Clove Road to City lines, following said line 
to DeKalb avenue. 

House — Bedford^ corner of Jefferson avenue. 

FREDERICK D. CLARKE, Principal. 

Residence— Herkimer street, near Cloye road. 

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DISTRICT No. 4. 

Myrtle, Grand and DeKalb avenues to the City line of 
Brooklyn, before tlie consolidation, to Wallabont Bay, and 
Washington avenue to Myrtle avenue. 

House — Classon^ near FlusMng avenue. 

SAMUEL 0. BAENES, Principal. 

Residence — Kent avenue, neai" DeKalb avenue. 

DISTRICT No. 5. 

Fulton avenue, Canton street, Myrtle and Hudson avenues, 
Johnson and Bridge streets, and Myrtle avenue to Fulton 

street. 

House — Myrtle avenue.^ corner of Gold street. 

CHARLES E. TUTTLE, Principal. 

Residence — 

DISTRICT No. 6. 

Court, Atlantic and Boerum streets, Fulton avenue, Canton 
street. Fifth avenue, First street, Second avenue, Fifth street, 
First avenue, Gowanus Bay to Court street. 

House — Warren.^ near Smith street. 
DAVID SYME, Principal. 

Residence — Greene avenue, near Adelphi street. 

DISTRICT No. 7. 
Fulton, Sands, Gold and York streets-, ISTavy Yard "Wall, and 
East River to Fulton street. 

House— Yorh.^ near Bridge street. 

FRAISTCIS C. BUCK, Principal. 

Residence — 116 Duffield street. 



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DISTRICT No. 8. 

Fulton, Boerum and Atlantic streets, and East Eiver to 
Fulton street. 

House — MiddagJi^ 'between Henry and Hicks streets. 

JOSIAH EEEYE, Principal. 

Residence — 71 Nassau street. 

DISTRICT No. 9. 

Fifth avenue, First street, Flatbusli line, Clove road, Baltic 
street, Washington avenue, and Atlantic avenue to Fifth 
avenue. 

House — Degraw street^ near Grand avenue. 
EBWm SPAFAED, Principal. 

Residence — Ryerson street, near Willoughby av. 

DISTRICT No. 10. 

First street. Second avenue. Fifth street. First avenue, 
Gowanus Bay, Twenty-seventh street. Greenwood Cemetery 
line, and Flatbush line to First street. 

House — Fourteenth street.^ deticeen Fourth and Fiftli avenues. 
PETEE EOUGET, Principal. 

Residence — Twenty-first St., near Fourth av. 

DISTRICT No. 11. 

Atlantic, Grand, Myrtle, Washington and DeKalb avenues, 
and Canton street to Atlantic. 

House — Washington.^ tetween Greene and Gates avenues. 
BENJAMIN" F. LIBBY, Principal. 

Residence — G-reene avenue, near Adelphi street. 



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DISTRICT No. 12. 

Oxford street, Myrtle avenue, Canton street, DeKalb and 
Washington avenues, and Wallabout Bay to Oxford street. 

House — AdelpM street^ near Myrtle avenue. 

EDWIN" S. ADAMS, Principal. 

Residence — 244 South Second street, 

DISTRICT No. 13. 

Atlantic and Court streets, Gowanus Bay, and East Kiver to 
Atlantic street. 

House — Degraw street.^ opposite CJieever place. 

A. B. CLAEKE, Principal. 

Residence — 20 Tompkins place. 

DISTRICT No. 14. 

York, Gold, Sands, Bridge and Johnson streets, Hudson and 
Myrtle avenues, Oxford street, Flushing avenue, and Xavy 
to York street. 

House — JVavy., come?' of Concord street. 

C. W. WOLCOTT, Principal. 

Residence — 116 Dufifield street. 
DISTRICT No. 15. 



House — To he near FlatbusTi avenue. 
Principal. 



Residence — 



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DISTRICT No. 16. 

House — South Third, corner of Fifth street. 
LEONAED DAis^KLY, Jr., Principal, 

Kesidence — Adelphi street near Myrtle avenue. 
DISTRICT No. 17. 

House — North Fift\ corner of JBifth street.^ 
HEITRY D. WOODWORTH, Principal. 

Residence — Flushing, near Bushwick ay. 
DISTRICT No. 18. 



House — Remsen street., near Eicen street. 
EDWARD BUSH, Principal. 

Residence — 275 Fifth street. 
DISTRICT No. 19. 



House — South Second.^ corner of Tenth street. 
THOS. W. yALE:NrTI]ST:, Principal. 



Residence-^244 South Second street. 



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DISTRICT No. 20. 



House — South Fourth^ letween Eighth and Ninth street. 
MRS. C. D. KELLY, PrincipaL 

Residence — South Third, near Fifth street. 
DISTRICT No. 21. 



House — McKibMn^ near Eioen street. 
MISS KATE Mc WILLIAMS, PrincipaL 

Residence — ^Van Cott, c. Graham av. E. Brooklyn. 
DISTRICT No. 22. 



House — J street^ 'between FranTclin and Union avenue, 
JOSHUA B. GRIFFIN"G, Principal. 

Residence — Madison st. n. Franklin av. G. P. 
DISTRICT No. 23. 



Hpuse — Bushwick Centre., near Bushwick church. 
JOHN M. WITHERSPOON, PrincipaL 

Residence — 253 Grand street, Williamsburgh. 



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DISTRICT No. 24. 



Souse — Bushwiclc Cross Eoads. 
WILLIAM M. KEKR, PrincipaL 

Residence — Greene, b. Bushwick av. and Broadway. 
DISTRICT No. 25. 



House — Walworth street^ near Myrtle avenue. 
Principal. 

Residence — 



^ PRIMARY, No. I. 



Souse — Nbi'th Sixtl^ near First street. 
MPvS. MARY COOPER,- Principal. 



Residence — North Seventh St. near Fourth av. 



PRIMARY, No. 3. 



Souse — N^orth First., near Fourth street. 
MISS LOUISA 0. TILLY, Principal. 

Residence — ^North Eighth, near Fifth street. 



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PRIMARY, No. 4. 

House — Nintli^ near AinsUe street. 
MES. SUSANNAH BROWN, Principal. 

Residence — North Second, corner of Seventh st. 
PRIMARY, No. 5. 



House — Front street.^ corner of Green Lane. 
MISS MARY A. LEECH, Principal. 

Residence — ^Livingston street, near Nevins. 
COLORED, No. 1. 



House — WillougJiby^ near Raymond street. 
WILLIAM J. WILSON, Principal. 

Residence — Greene, near Fulton avenue. 
COLORED, No. 2. 



House — WeeTcsville 
JUNIUS 0. MOREL, Principal. 

Residence — Schuyler street, Weeksville. 



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COLORED, No. 3. 

House — Tenth street^ near N'orth Second street. 
SAMUEL S. EAJS^KIXS, Principal. 

Residence — 249 South Fourth St., "Williamsburgh. 



AN ACT 

to re-oegaxize and regrlate the comzviox scnools axd the 
Board of Edi'catiox in the City of Brooklyx. 

Passed April 4, 1S59, " three-fifths being present." 

The Peo])le of tTie State of N'ew Yoi% represented in Senate and 
AssemMi/^ do enact as follows : 

Sec. 1. The Common Council of the city of Brooklyn shall, 
on the first Monday of Febrnary after this act becomes a law, 
appoint thirty-three persons, residents of said city, one of whom 
at least, shall reside in each school district thereof, who to- 
gether shall constitute a Board of Education. It shall then 
divide the said Board into three equal classes, each class con- 
taining eleven members, and shall determine by lot their re- 
spective terms of office, so that the first class shall serve one 
year, the second two years, and the third three years. In each 
year thereafter, the said Common Council shall appoint eleven 
members of said Board, care being had to preserve the repre- 
sentation of at least one member from each school district, 
whose term of office shall continue three years, and in case a 
vacancy shall at any time occur in said Board, the said Council 
shall supply the same. The persons so appointed, shall be re- 
eligible, and shall hold office until their successors are appointed 
and shall have qualified. 

§ 2, The Board of Education shall have the entire charge 
and direction of all the Public Schools of said city, and of the 
School Moneys raised for the support of the same, and shall 



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possess the powers, and be subject to tlie general duties of 
Trustees of Common Schools in this State, so far as the same 
are not impaired or affected by this act. It shall annually 
choose a presiding officer, make its own by-laws, keep a journal 
of its proceedings, define the duties of its officers and commit- 
tees, and prescribe such rules and regulations for instruction 
and discipline in the said Public Schools, as are not inconsis- 
tent with the laws of the State ; and all the provisions of the 
act relating to resignations and expulsions in the Common 
Council shall be applicable to the Board of Education. 

§ 3. The whole city shall be a school district for all pur- 
poses of taxation, as well for the purchase of school sites and 
the building and repairing of school houses, as for the annual 
support of schools ; but shall be divided by the Board of Edu- 
cation into as many districts as there are schools, for the pur- 
pose of determining the limits within which children may 
attend such schools. 

§ 4. The Board of Education shall have power to organize 
and establish Schools for Colored Children, and such Evening 
Schools as it may, from time to time, deem expedient, and shall 
adopt the necessary rules for the government of the same. It 
may make use of the Public School Houses under its charge 
for such Evening Schools, and the expense of said Schools shall 
be paid out of the General Fund, in the same manner as those 
of other Public Schools, l^o person shall be prohibited from 
attending the Evening Schools on account of age. 

§ 5 The Board of Education shall appoint a City Superin- 
tendent of Common Schools, who shall, ex-officio, be the Sec- 
retary of the Board. In addition to such other duties as may 
be devolved upon him by the Board, in the Visitation and 
Superintendence of the Schools, he shall examine the qualifica- 
tions of Teachers, and grant Certificates in such manner and 
form as may be prescribed by the State Superintendent, which 
shall not be in force longer than a year, and may at any time 



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be revoked by the Board of Education. He shall also make 
such Annual and other Eeports of the condition of the Schools^ 
and of other matters, as may be required by la^v or by the said 
Board. He shall be paid a salary out of the General Fund, to^ 
be fixed by the Board, and may be removed from office by the 
vote of a majority of all the members of the Board of Educa- 
tion. 

§ 6. The Treasurer of the City shall be, ex-officio, the Trea- 
surer of the Board of Education, and shall receive to the credit 
of said Board, from the County Treasurer, the amount of School 
Money to which the City is entitled from the State Appropria- 
tion, together with such amount as is raised by the Board of 
Supervisors, to entitle the City to its distributive share of the 
School Moneys of the State, and from the City Collector the 
Money raised by tax for the support of Schools ; and he shall 
disburse the same only by the order and upon the warrant of 
the Board of Education, drawn in favor of the person entitled 
to payment, signed by the presiding officer of the Board, and 
countersigned by its Secretary. 

§ 7. The Treasurer shall give such Bonds for the faithful 
performance of his duty as the Common Council may require, 
and shall report Monthly to the Board of Education his receipts 
and expenditures, with the balance remaining on hand to the 
credit of the Board, and such other information in relation 
thereto as the Board of Education may from time to time 
require. 

§ 8. The Board of Education shall provide for taking an 
Annual Census of all the Children of the City, on the thirty- 
first day of December in each year, between the ages of five 
and sixteen years inclusive, which enumeration, with such 
statistical and other information as may be required by law^ 
shall be included in the Report of the City Superintendent, re- 
quired in a previous section. 

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§ 9. The Board of Education shall present, annually, on or 
before the first Monday in February, to the Common Council, 
an estimate of the money required to be raised in the ensuing 
year for the support of the Schools and for the purchase of 
School sites, as well as for building and repairing of School 
Houses ; and the Common Council shall determine what sums 
shall be raised for such purposes, respectively, in addition to 
the amount already required by law in order to entitle the 
City to its distributive share of the State School Money. 

§ 10. The amount of Money to be raised for the support 
of Schools in any one year, exclusive of the sums required to 
purchase sites, and to build and repair School Houses, as well 
as to entitle the City to its share of the State School Money, 
shall not be less than one dollar and twenty-five cents, nor 
more than one dollar and seventy-five cents, for each child be- 
tween the ages of five and sixteen years, within the City, as 
ascertained by the previous census, herein required to be taken 
on the thirty-first of December in each year. 

§ 11. The several amounts so determined by the Common 
Council to be raised as aforesaid, shall be levied upon all the 
taxable property of the City, in the same manner, and at the 
same time as the taxes for City purposes, and shall be stated 
and sent to the Board of County Supervisors, to be levied and 
collected accordingly, 

§ 12. The Board of Supervisors, in the Warrant to the Col- 
lector, shall direct him to pay the amount so to be collected to 
the Treasurer of the City, to the credit of the Board of Educa- 
tion, out of the first Moneys collected. 

§ 13. It shall be the duty of the first Board of City Asses- 
sors elected after this law shall take effect, to estimate the 
value of the School Property of each School District as here- 
tofore existing, and certify the same to tlie Board of Super- 
pervisors. The Supervisors shall thereupon proceed to equalize 
the said value by assessing the aggregate amount thereof upon 



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the whole City, and crediting each School District on account 
of its general tax, with the value of its separate School Property, 
and its special School taxes already laid and in progress of col- 
lection. 

§ 14. The Board of Education shall determine the number 
and location of Schools ; but no expenditures for the purchase 
of ground for the erection of School Houses shall hereafter be 
made, unless the same shall have been approved of by the 
Common Council. Such approval shall be deemed to have 
been given when the tax therefor shall be approved by the 
Common Council, and levied by the Supervisors ; or it may be 
especially given upon the application of the Board of Educa- 
tion to make expenditure in anticipation of a tax to be leAded 
in the ensuing year. 

§ 15. The title of all property now or hereafter to be re- 
quired for School purposes, shall be vested in the Board of 
Education. 

§ 16. The Board of Education shall determine whether 
any and what portion of the State Appropriation and the 
County tax, designated as Library Money, shall be applied to 
the purchase of School Libraries and Apparatus, and the. dis- 
position thereof ; and the residue of said money shall be ap- 
plied to the payment of Teachers^ Avages, or for the purchase 
of School books, and to no other purpose. 

§ 17. The money raised for the purchase of School sites, 
and the building, repairing and furnishing of School Houses, 
shall be known as the " Special School Eund," and all other 
moneys as the "General School Fund;" and it shall be the 
duty of the Board of Education to keep accurate accounts of 
its receipts and expenditures, distinguishing between those of a 
general and those of a special character ; and it shall not be 
lawful to expend any portion of the moneys rdsed for the use 
of one of said funds, for the purposes of the other of said funds, 
but the expenditures shall be made in conformity with the 



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appropriations under which the funds were levied and col- 
lected. 

§ 18. The Board of Education shall make returns annually, 
to the Common Council, of its receipts and expenditures, speci- 
fying those on account of the General and Special Funds re- 
spectively, with such other details as the Common Council 
may from time to time require. 

§ 19. ^STo School in said City shall be entitled to any por- 
tion of the School Moneys, in which the religious sectarian 
doctrine or tenets of any particular Christian or other religious 
sect shall be taught or inculcated, or which shall refuse or 
prohibit visits or examinations by the City Superintendent or 
members of the Board of Education of said City ; provided 
that this section shall not be deemed to prohibit the use of the 
Holy Scriptures without note or comment. 

§ 20. The Schools of the Asylum Societies in said City, 
shall participate in the distribution of the School Moneys, in 
such manner that they shall respectively receive a sum in pro- 
portion to the number of children who shall have actually at- 
tended such School without charge during tlie preceding year, 
for which School Mone^^s are raised ; which sums shall be equal 
to the amount paid to any of the Public Schools in said City, 
in proportion to the number of children Avho shall have actu- 
ally attended any such School during the said preceding year, 
actually orphans, or half orphans. 

Session Lairs 1850, Chapter 143, Page 237. 



EXTRACT FROM TITLE XI. OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF 
BROOKLYN. 

§ 13. There shall be a Board of Education, and all the pro- 
visions of the law relating to the Board of Education of the 
present City of Brooklyn shall apply thereto ; except that the 
Board herebv authorized shall be constituted of the members 



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of the said present Board, and such additional members as 
may be appointed by the Common Council for the portion of 
the city embraced in the present City of Williamsburgh and 
town of Bushwick, and the said Common Council is hereby 
authorized and required to appoint and classify such additional 
members having reference therein to the proportional increase 
of inhabitants by the additional territory; and the school 
property of the Cities of Brooklyn and TTilliamsburgh and town 
of Bushwick, and the several districts thereof, shall be valued 
by the first Board of Assessors elected after this act shall take 
effect, and the Board of Supervisors of the county shall pro- 
ceed to equalize the said value, by assessing the aggregate 
amount thereof upon the whole City, and crediting each School 
District (the City of Brooklyn to be considered as one district,) 
on account of its general tax with the value of its separate 
school property, and any special school taxes already laid and 
in process of collection. The eighth and twentieth sections of 
the Act, entitled to reorganize and regulate the Common Schools 
and Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn, passed April 
4, 1850, is hereby repealed. 



LAWS RELATIVE TO COM:m:OX SCHOOLS. Passed 1855. 

Chap. 80. 

An Act to amend the law of taxation for the support of Schools, 
and to change the mode of distribution of the School Moneys. 

Passed April 12, 1856, three-fifths being present. 

The People of the State of JSfew Yorh^ represented in Senate 
and AssemMy^ do enact as follows : 

§ 1. There shall hereafter be raised by tax, in the present 
and each succeeding year, upon the real and personal estate of 
each county within the State, three-fourths of a mill upon 



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each and every dollar of the valution of such estate, for the 
support of Common Scliools in this State, to be apportioned 
and distributed by the Superintendent of public instruction, in 
the same manner as the proceeds of the State tax of eight hun- 
dred thousand dollars, in lieu of which this tax is substituted, 
and now required to be apportioned and distributed, except as 
hereinafter provided. The Board of Supervisors of each coun- 
ty shall assess such amount upon the real and personal estate 
of such count}^, in the manner provided by law for the assess- 
ment and collection of taxes; and shall, annually, as soon as 
the aggregate valuation of the real and personal estate of their 
county shall be ascertained, give immediate notice thereof to 
the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 'No Clerk of any 
Board of Supervisors, or other person who may make out the 
tax list or assessment rolls of any town, shall omit to include 
and apportion among the moneys to be raised thereby, the 
amount hereby required to be raised for the support of schools, 
by reason of the omission of the Board of Supervisors to pass 
a resolution for that purpose. 

§ 2. Every district in this State in which a school shall 
have been taught by a qualified teacher for the time of six 
months, or by successive teachers, whose periods of actual in- 
struction amount in the aggregate to six months, and no other 
shall be enumerated for the purpose of the distribution of so 
much of the school money as shall be divided equally among 
the districts. 

§ 3. Every District School in which two or more qualified 
teachers are actually employed at the same time for the period 
of six months or over, shall be enumerated as so many districts 
as there have been teachers thus employed during the year, 
whether any one or more of them had been continuously em- 
ployed for the whole period of six months or not, providing 
the number of teachers actually employed shall have been at 
no time less than the number at which the district is enumera- 



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ted. Pupils employed as moiiitors or otherwise, shall not be 
deemed teachers for the purpose of such enumeration. 



Chap. 179. 



An Act to provide for a more thorough supervision and 
inspection of Common Schools, and further to amend 
the statutes relating to Public Instruction in this State. 

Passed April 12th, 1S56, three fifths being present. 

The People of the State of New YorTc^ represented, in Senate and 
Assembly^ do enact as folloios : 

§ 1. The Board of Supervisors of the several counties in 
this State composing each one Assembly District, and also the 
Boards of Supervisors of each of the counties of Fulton and 
Hamilton, shall assemble at their usual place of meeting, on 
the third day of June next, at noon, and elect for their county 
an officer to be called School Commissioner. Such officer shall 
be elected by ballot, and shall hold his office from the day of 
his election until the first day of January, one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-eight. 

§ 2. The Boards of Supervisors of the several counties in 
this State having more than one Assembly District, except the 
counties of New York and Kings, shall meet on the third day 
of June next, at noon, and elect by ballot an officer to be called 
School Commissioner, for each Assembly District in their re- 
spective counties, who shall hold his office until the first day 
of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. 

§ 3. The Supervisors of the towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, 
Gravesend, ISTew Lots and Ncav Utrecht, in the county of Kings, 
shall, on the third day of June next, meet at the usual place of 
meeting of the Board of Supervisors of said county, and elect 



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by ballot a School Commissioner for that portion of said coim- 
tj, not included within the City of Brooklyn, who shall hold 
his office from the day of election until the first day of January, 
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and until a succes- 
sor shall have been elected by the inhabitants of the said towns 
in the manner hereinafter provided. 

§ 4. In the several counties composing each but one As- 
sembly District, the respective Boards of Supervisors shall have 
power and are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to choose 
two School Commissioners whenever the number of School 
Districts in the county shall exceed one hundred and forty, 
counting two parts of Districts joint with other counties one 
District. In case two Commissioners shall be chosen as afore- 
said, then the Board of Supervisors shall immediately proceed 
to divide the county into two districts or sections, having re- 
ference in such division, as nearly as may be, to equalize the 
territory and number of schools and pupils under the super- 
vision of each commission, and also having reference to the 
density of population, and the facilities for travelling. They 
shall make a description of the divisions established by them, 
and assign the charge of one of them to each of the Commis- 
sioners then chosen. But no town shall be divided in the 
formation of any such District. Such description shall be filed 
in the office of the County Clerk, and a copy thereof sent by 
him to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

§ 5. In case any two persons shall have an equal number 
of votes for the office of Commissioner, at the election herein- 
before provided for, the Clerk of the Board may give a casting 
vote, but except for that purpose, shall have no vote in the 
proceedings. 

§ 6. A certificate of the election of every Commissioner 
shall forthwith be made by the Clerk of the Board of Super- 
visors, and filed in the office of the Count}^ Clerk, and a dupli- 
cate thereof be sent by mail to the Superintendent of Public 



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Instruction : and the County Clerk, upon the filing of such cer- 
tificate, shall forthwith give notice, in writing, to the School 
Commissioners of their election, who shall, within ten days 
after such notice, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of 
office, and shall give notice of their acceptance to the Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction, and enter upon their duties im- 
mediately. They shall hold their office until the first day of 
January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and un- 
til their successors shall have taken and filed with the County 
Clerk, the like oath of office. 

§ 7. At the annual general election, held in the year one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and every three years 
thereafter, there shall be elected on a separate ballot, to be en- 
dorsed " School Commissioner," in the several Assembly Dis- 
tricts, and in the sections of single Assembly Districts, formed 
and designated as hereinbefore provided, and in the towns of 
Kings county not included in the City of Brooklyn, a School 
Commissioner for such district or section. All the provisions 
of law relating to the mode of voting and of canvassing the 
votes for county officers, shall apply to and govern the election 
of such Commissioners. The person so elected shall enter into 
office on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred 
and fifty-eight, and shall hold office for three years, and until 
their successors shall have qualified according to law. Each 
of such Commissioners, in counties where more than one is 
elected, shall take charge of that one of the Assembly Districts, 
or that one of the sections, into which any county having but 
one Assembly District may be divided, for which he shall have 
been elected ; but may, upon the written request of the Com- 
missioner in charge of any other section of the same county, 
perform any duties therein, which he might discharge in the 
section of his own residence. 

§ 8. Every Commissioner shall have power, and it shall be 
his duty : 

1. To visit and examine all the Schools and School Districts 

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committed to his charge, as often in each year as shall be prac- 
ticable ; to inquire into all matters relating to the management, 
the course and mode of instruction, the books, studies, and dis- 
cipline of such Schools, the condition of the school houses, 
out-buildings and appendages, and of the districts generallj^; 
to advise and counsel with the Trustees and other oflBcers of 
School Districts, in relation to their duties, and particularly in 
relation to the construction, ventilation and warming of school 
houses, and the improving and adorning of the school grounds 
connected therewith, and to recommend to such Trustees and 
to the Teachers employed by them, the proper studies, disci- 
pline and management of the Schools, the course of instruction 
to be pursued, and to examine into the condition of the Dis- 
trict Libraries. No Commissioner shall act as agent for any 
author, publisher or bookseller, or shall direct!}' or indirectly 
receive any gift, emolument or reward for his influence in 
recommending the use of any book or school apparatus or 
furniture of any kind whatever. Any act herein prohibited 
shall be deemed a violation of his official oath, and any offer 
or solicitation to such an act, sluill be considered an attempt to 
bribe and corrupt a public oflicer, 

2. To examine persons offering themselves as candidates for 
teachers of public schools, in order to determine and to decide 
upon their capacity and to grant them certificates of qualifica- 
tion, in such forms as shall be prescribed by the Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, which certificates, according to the terms 
thereof, shall be evidence of the qualifications of such Teachers 
in the District of the county, to which such Commissioner shall 
be elected, or to which he shall be assigned in accordance with 
the provisions of this act. 

3 To annul any certificate granted to any Teacher by him 
or by his predecessor, or by any town or county superintend- 
>ent, whenever such Teacher shall be found deficient, and to 
-examine upon reasonable notice and opportunity of defence 
to the Teacher, into all charges affecting the moral character 
of the Teacher, which may be presented as a cause for annul- 



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ling a certificate by whomsoever sach certificate may have 
been granted, and he shall report every instance of such ex- 
amination, the evidence which may be presented in the case to 
the Superintendent of Public Instruction, immediately after the 
conclusion of sucli examination. 

4. To organize and conduct at least once in each year, in his 
own District or in concert with the Commissioner or Commis- 
sioners of one or more adjoining Districts in the same county, 
a Teachers' Institute, and to induce if possible all the Common 
School Teachers in his District to be present and take part in 
tlie exercises of such institute ; and to perform the duties im- 
posed by chapter three hundred and sixty-one, laws of eighteen 
hundred and forty-seven, upon Town Superintendents, and to 
give the notice therein required to be given by the Coimty 
Clerk: 

5. And generally by all means in his power to promote sound 
edncation, elevate the character and qualification of Teachers, 
improve the means of instruction and advance the interests of 
the Schools committed to his charge. 

, § 9. Any Commissioner may at any time resign his ofiice 
to the Clerk of the county in which he was elected, and in cas e 
of vacancy from such cause or by death, removal from oflice or 
from the county, or refusal to accept, the County Clerk shall 
give immediate notice to the County Judge of such county, 
who shall appoint a successor to fill such vacancy till the nex t 
following general election, when a successor shall be chosen 
by the electors as hereinbefore provided. 

§ 10. The Commissioners shall be subject to such rules and 
regulations as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 
from time to time prescribe, and appeals from their acts and 
decisions may be made to him in the same manner and with 
like effect as in cases now provided by law. They shall make 
reports annually to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
at such times as shall be appointed by him, containing such in- 
formation as he shall require: and for that purpose the annual 



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reports of the Trustees of School Districts shall be ma<le to 
them, and be deposited with the Town Clerks of the town in 
which the school house of each District is situated, from whom 
the said Commissioners shall obtain the same. Henceforth the 
Trustees of joint Districts, composed of territory lying in two 
or more towns in the same county, shall be required to make 
but one annual report, in such form as the State Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction shall prescribe. The reports of the 
Trustees after the Commissioner shall have made his abstract 
therefrom, shall be properly arranged, filed, and together with 
a copy of his own annual report, shall be deposited in the Office 
of the County Clerk for safe keeping. The County Clerks 
shall not be required to make returns or abstracts of such re- 
ports. 

§ 11, Every Commissioner shall have power to take affida- 
vits, and administer oaths in all matters pertaining to Common 
Schools, but without charge or fee, and under the direction of 
the Superintendent of Public Instruction may hear and report 
to him testimony in all cases of appeals. 

§ 12. Every Commissioner chosen or elected in pursuance 
of this act shall receive an annual salary of at least five hun- 
dred dollars, to be paid out of tlie income of tlie United States 
Deposit Fund, appropriated to this purpose or to the support of 
Common Scliools, and it shall be the duty of the Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction to apportion to each county, in liis 
annual apportionment of the income of said fund thus appro- 
priated, five hundred dollars for the salary of each Conmiis- 
sioner of Common Schools in said county, created under au- 
thority of this act. 

§ 13. The several Boards of Supervisors, whenever, in their 
opinion, the interests of education in th^ir respective counties 
will be promoted thereby, may increase the salary of any Com- 
missioner to such sum as they may deem reasonable and just; 
but the Supervisors of the Wards in any City not included in a 
School Commissioner's District, shall not vote upon such ques- 
tions: the increase over and above the five hundred dollars 



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payable to him tVoiii the United States Deposit Fund to be a 
charge upon the county or district over which such Commis- 
sioner may have jurisdiction ; and the same shall be assessed 
annually upon the towns composing such county or District, 
rateably, according to the corrected valuations of the real and 
personal estate of sucli toAvns, 

§ 14. The Boards of Supervisors are hereby authorized and 
I'equired to audit and alloAV to such Commissioners such sums 
as they may have incurred for necessary expenses by them in 
the performance of their othcial duties to an amount not ex- 
ceeding one hundred dollars. 

§ 15. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall also 
apportion to each of the Cities in this State, having, under 
special acts a Superintendent of Common Schools, or whose 
Boards of Education choose a Clerk doing the duty of Super- 
vision under their direction, out of the income of the United 
States Deposit Fund appropriated for this purpose, or for the 
support of Connnon Schools, the sum of live hundred dollars 
for each member of Assembly to which such city shall be en- 
titled according to the unit of representation adopted by the 
legislature, to be paid into the City Treasury, and expended as 
I'v'qnired by law for the support of Schools. 

^16. The several Cities in this State whicli under special 
acts already elect Superintendents of Common Schools, or 
whose Boards of Education choose Clerks doing the duty of 
supervision under the direction of the Board of Education, 
shall not be included in any Commissioner's District created 
by this act or authorized to be formed by the Board of Super- 
visors ; and the ses^eral Boards of Supervisors in counties in 
which such cities are joined to towns in the formation of an 
Assembly District, may divide the county, exclusive of such 
cities, into such School Commissioners' Districts as they may 
deem advisable, but no town shall be divided in forming such 
Districts. 

§ 17. Whenever the Board of Supervisors of any county 

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in this State shall have appointed a Commissioner or Commis- 
sioners in pursuance of this act, and such officers shall have 
taken the constitutional oath of office, henceforth, and after 
that time, the office of Town Superintendent of Common 
Schools for the several towns in such county shall be abolished, 
and each Town Superintendent shall forthwith pay over to the 
Supervisors of his town all School Moneys unexpended, with a 
full statement of all moneys received and paid out by him 
since the last annual report made by him or his predecessor, 
and of the moneys remaining in his or his predecessor's hands 
at the time of making such report. He shall also specify in 
such statement the last apportionment made to the School 
Districts, separate neighborhoods and parts of joint Districts 
in his town, and shall also state specifically the part of such 
apportionment paid to each, and the balance thereof due to 
each. If it shall appear that any former Town Superintendent 
has neglected or refused to render to his successor in office such 
full statement of all moneys received and paid out by him 
during his official term or terms, it shall be the duty of the 
Commissioners created under this act, or any one of them, to 
require such delinquent Town Superintendent, by notice in 
Avriting, to make such return to the Supervisor of his town 
within twenty days from the date of such service ; and if, after 
having been duly served with such notice, he still neglects 
or refuses to make such return as aforesaid, or show good 
cause why he has not done so, he shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and it shall be the duty of the Supervisor of the town, 
or of any Commissioner creaied by this act, to sue for and re- 
cover all moneys in the hands of any defaulting Town Super- 
intendent. 

§ 18. Every Supervisor who shall embezzle any of such 
moneys, or any moneys that shall come into his hands by vir- 
tue of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 

§ 19. The Public School Moneys heretofore paid to Town 
Superintendents, or on their orders, shaU be paid onl}' to the 
Supervisors of the towns. 



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§ 20. Before the County Treasurer of any County shall 
pay over to the Supervisor of any town in said county the 
Public School Moneys apportioned for the support of Schools 
therein, he shall require the said Supervisor to deposit with 
him a bond to the Treasurer, in behalf of the town, executed 
by said Supervisor, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be 
approved by said Treasurer, in the penalty of double the 
amount of said School Moneys, conditioned for the faithful 
disbursement, safe keeping and accounting for such moneys, 
and of all other School Moneys that may come into his hands 
from any other source; and whenever the said bond shall be 
forfeited, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to prose- 
cute for the penalty of the same, in his own name, in behalf 
of the town, and the money recovered shall be paid over to 
the Superv^isor of the town succeeding the Supervisor in de- 
fault. 

§ 21. The said Supervisors, in the disbursement of and ac- 
counting for School Moneys which shall come into their hands, 
shall be governed by the same laws and rules as are now ap- 
plicable to Town Superintendents. Each of the said Super- 
visors shall keep a just and true account of all the School Mon- 
eys received and disbursed by him during each year, and shall 
lay the same, with proper vouchers, before the Board of Town 
Auditors, at each annual meeting of such Board. 

§ 22. The said Supervisor shall, within fifteen days after 
the termination of his office, render to his successor in office a 
just and true account, in writing, of all School Moneys by him 
received before the time of rendering such account, and of 
the manner in which the same or any part thereof shall have 
been expended by him ; and the account so rendered shall be 
delivered by such successor in office to the Town Clerk, to be 
filed and recorded in his office ; and the Town Clerk shall 
forthwith send a copy of such account to the School Conmiis- 
sioner. Each Supervisor shall keep a bound blank book, In 
which all his receipts and disbursements of School Moneys 
shall be entered by him, specifying from whom, and the pur- 



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pose for which they were received; and to whom, and the 
purpose for which they were paid out. The cost of such book 
shall be a charge upon his town ; and said book shall be de- 
livered to his successor in office. 

§ 23. On rendering such account, if any balance shall be 
found remaining in the hands of such Supervisor, the same 
shall be immediately paid by him to his successor in office, who 
shall hold it subject to tho order of the Trustees of any School 
Districts, parts of District, or to the Trustee of any separate 
neighborhood, to which the same may have been apportioned, 
and which shall be_entitled to receive it. 

§ 24. It shall be the duty of the Supervisor, by his name 
of office, to sue for and recover all penalties and forfeitures 
imposed by any act relating to Schools in respect to which no 
provision is made, or for any default or omission by any Town 
Superintendent, or any other town officer or School District 
officer or officers, now required to be sued for by the Town Su- 
perintendent; and after deducting his costs and expenses, shall 
report the balance in his hands to the Commissioner, who shall 
apportion the same to the District or Districts to which the 
same may belong. 

§ 25. All tlie duties and requirements of law now imposed 
upon Town Superintendents, in reference to the formation, 
alteration, dissolution, consolidation and annuling of Scliool 
Districts, the building of School houses, the selection and 
change of sites, and in relation to the sale of School District 
property, and the disposal and apportionment of the moneys 
arising therefrom, are hereby imposed upon the School Com- 
missioner, in respect to the several towns within his jurisdic- 
tion; and he shall pay over the said moneys to the Super- 
visors, to be by them paid to the Districts or parts of Districts 
which may be entitled to receive the same. 

§ 26. All the ])0wers and duties imposed upon Town Su- 
perintendents by sections seventy -two, seventy-three, seventy- 
seven, eighty and one hundred and thirteen, of chapter four 
hundred and eighty, laws of one thousand eight hundred and 



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forty-seven, are hereby imposed upon the Supervisors of the 
towns. 

§ 27. All the powers and duties formerly possessed and 
exercised by the Trustees of the Gospel and School lots, and 
subsequently by section one of chapter one hundred and eighty- 
six, laws of one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, con- 
ferred upon Town Superintendent of Common Schools, are 
hereby conferred and imposed upon the Supervisors of towns, 
and shall hereafter be exercised and performed by them. 

§ 28. It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk of each town : 

1. To receive from the present Town Superintendents, all 
books, maps and papers appertaining to his office, and to file 
and keep them in the Town Clerk's Ofiice. 

2. To receive from the Supervisor the certificates of appor- 
tionments of School Moneys for the town, and record them in 
a book to be kept for that purpose. 

3. To notify the Trustees of the School Districts when such 
estimates and appropriations are filed in his office. 

4. To see that the Trustees of Common Schools make and 
file with him their annual reports, within the time prescribed 
by law. 

5. To distribute to the Trustees of School Districts all blanks 
and circulars which shall be delivered or forwarded to him by 
the Commissioner, for that purpose. 

6. To receive from the Supervisor, and record in a book 
kept for that purpose, the annual account of the receipts and 
disbursements of School Moneys required to be submitted to 
the town auditors, and filed with the said Clerk, and to send a 
copy thereof by mail to the Commissioner. 

§ 29. All the powers and duties imposed upon the Com- 
missioners of Common Schools, by the act passed April the 
twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, 
entitled "An act relative to moneys in the hands of Overseers 
of the Poor," passed April twenty-seventh, one thousand eight 



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hundred and twenty-nine, are hereby imposed upon the Super- 
visors of towns. 

§ 30. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, on or before the first day of January of 
each and every year, after deducting any portion hereinbefore 
required to be apportioned for and on account of supervision, 
to apportion and divide one-third of the remainder of the in- 
come of the United States Deposit Fund appropriated by law 
for the support of Schools, and one-third of all other moneys 
thus appropriated, among the several School Districts and 
separate neighborhoods in this State, from which reports shall 
have been received, in accordance with law, in the following 
manner, viz : to each separate neighborhood belonging to a 
School District in some adjoining State, there shall be appor- 
tioned and paid a sum of money equal to thirty-three cents for 
each cliild in such neighborhood, (between the ages of four 
and twenty-one ;) but the sum so to be apportioned and paid 
to any such neighborhood, shall in no case exceed the sum of 
twenty-four dollars ; and the residue of such one-third shall 
be apportioned and divided equally among the School Districts ; 
and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, by 
proper regulations and instructions to be prescribed by him, 
provide for the payment of such moneys to the Trustees of 
such separate neighborhoods and School Districts. 

§ 81. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, on or before the first day of January of 
each and every year, to apportion and divide the remaining 
two-thirds of tlie remainder specified in the preceding section, 
among the several counties, according to population, as the 
same shall appear from the last preceding State or United 
States Census ; but in counties in which are situated cities hav- 
ing a si)ecial scliool act, he shall apportion to each city the 
part to wliicli it sliall be entitled, and to the remainder of the 
county the part to wliich it shall be entitled; and he shall cer- 
tify sucli apportionment and every other apportionment, to the 
County Clerk of the county to which they shall be made, and 
to the School Commissioner or School Connnissioners of such 



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county, and the School Commissioner or School Commission- 
ers jointly, in counties having more than one Commissioner 
shall forthwith proceed to set apart to eacli separate neigh- 
borhood and School District within his or their jurisdiction, 
the amount apportioned to each by the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction. The Commissioner or Commissioners 
shall then proceed to divide and apportion the balance of the 
Public School Moneys (apportioned according to population 
for the support of Schools within his or their jurisdiction) to 
the separate neighborhoods. School Districts and parts of 
School Districts, joint with i)arts in an}' city or a town in an 
adjoining county, in proportion to the number of children in 
each, (between the ages of four and twenty-onej as the same 
shall appear from the report of the Trustees of the last prece- 
ding School year ; and he or they shall specify in such appor- 
tionment, the amount apportioned to each for library purposes 
and the amount for Teacliers' wages. But no moneys shall be 
apportioned or set apart by him or them to any separate neigh- 
borhood or School District or part of a District, (joint with a 
part in any city, or with a part in a town in an adjoining coun- 
ty,) unless it shall appear from a report of the Trustees thereof 
for the last preceding school year that a Public School was 
supported by the inhabitants thereof, for at least six months 
during the year ending with the date of such report, by a duly 
qualified Teacher, except by special permission of the State Su- 
perintendent of Public Instruction. Tlie Commissioner or 
Commissioners aforesaid shall then set apart to each town 
within his or their jurisdiction, the money so set apart and ap- 
portioned by them to each separate neighborhood therein, to 
each School District, the school-house of which is therein and 
to each part of a joint district therein, the school-house of 
which is located in a city or in a town in an adjoining county. 
A certificate shall then be made by the Commissioner or Com- 
missioners, showing the amount apportioned to each separate 
neighborhood, School District, and part of a District, joint as 
hereinbefore specified, within his or their jurisdiction, and it 
shall also show the to^vns in which they are respectively situ- 



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ated. One copy of said certificate, signed by the Commissioner 
or Commissioners, shall be sent to the County Treasurer, and 
one copy to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction ; 
and to the Supervisor of each town, the Commissioner or Com- 
missioners shall certify the amount of School Moneys so ap- 
portioned, which he shall be entitled to receive from the Coun- 
ty Treasurer, and the portions thereof to be paid by him for 
Library purposes and for Teachers' wages, to each District, 
separate neighborhood, and part of a District, (joint with a 
part in a city) or with any town in an adjoining county. The 
Supervisor shall forthwith make a copy of such certificate 
for his own use, and deposit the original in the ofi3.ce of the 
Town Clerk of his town, and the share of the several towns so 
apportioned shall be paid over to the Supervisors on and after 
the first Tuesday of February of each year. Sections four and 
five of the act entitled " An act to establish Free Schools 
throughout the State," passed April 12, one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-one, are hereby repealed. 

§ 32. The amount of money necessary to pay the salaries 
of the School Commissioners, and which shall be annually ap- 
portioned by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
fi-om the United States Deposit Fund for that purpose, as here- 
inbefore provided, shall be drawn from the income of that fund 
upon the Warrant of the Comptrollar, and retained in the Trea- 
sury to be paid out by the Treasurer to the several School 
Commissioners, upon the order of the said State Superintend- 
ent. 



State of ISTew York, ) I have compared the preceding with 
Secretary's Office. ) the original laws on file in this office, 
and do certify that the same are correct transcripts therefrom 
and of the whole of said originals. 

J. T. HE A DLEY, Secretary of State. 



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